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...took two years for me to design that model," Arman Mohtz '62 tells me, asking that I pay careful attention to the fact that 'government' is in a box and at the bottom. Mohtz likes to think of himself as a 'constitutionalist' rather than a conservative. Like many other delegates, he totes several copies of the Constitution around with him at all times. He opens one. "Congress shall make no law abridging..." Mohtz, a squat little man, gets excited. "That limitation's not on you, not on me, it's on Congress." He tells me of his campaign for Congress...
...Mohtz recalls that he first became disenchanted with Harvard when he took courses on the Far East from John Fairbank '29, Higginson: Professor of History. Fairbank attacked General Douglas MacArthur and Mohtz objected. "What I thought then was proved in the '50s, of course," Mohtz says, noting that Fairbank was cited as a Communist sympathizer...
Before leaving, I asked Mohtz if he had any contact with Harvard anymore. Not since he discovered that half Harvard's trustees were on 'The Council,' he said...
...Biology major. He asks if I know anything about the politics of the department there and I tell him of the debate between those who believe behavioral traits are inherited and others who say such things are determined by one's environment. "You mean totalitarianism vs. liberty," Mohtz says. I dare not ask which is which but it soon becomes apparent he believes only totalitarians try to mold people contrary to the designs of their souls...
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